Increasing model efficiency by dynamically changing model representations

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 30, Issue , 2012, Pages 115-122

  Gray, Randall ^a   Wotherspoon, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contaminant uptake; Equation based model; Individual based model; Integrated model; Model efficiency; Model structure

Indexed keywords

BALANCE POINT; CONTAMINANT UPTAKE; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELS; INTEGRATED MODELS; LARGE MARINE ECOSYSTEM; LOCAL STATE; MODEL EFFICIENCY; MODEL REPRESENTATION; MODELLING ERROR; RUNTIMES; STATE SPACE; SUBMODELS;

ANIMALS; MODEL STRUCTURES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFUSION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PERIODICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84855207181     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.08.012     Document Type: Article

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